Card Tricks For Kids
Magic Tricks Revealed: The Vanishing Card
Here is a great Card Trick that is based largely in misdirection. It requires a little bit of set up, but with only a few minutes practice you should be able to effectively perform this successfully in front of any audience. This is a big hit with kids, as it doesn’t require any special sleight of hand moves, and it’s pretty simple once you figure it out.
This is how the trick will appear to your stunned audience. You take three Aces: Spades, Clubs, and Diamonds. You fan them out, showing them to the audience. Then you put them on top of the deck, and shuffle and cut the deck several times, ensuring that they have been evenly dispersed.
You then ask a volunteer to come up and search for the Ace of Diamonds. They will search in vain, as they won’t be able to find it. If you like, you can get another audience member to come up and look, but they too will be unsuccessful. Then you magically produce the Ace of Diamonds out of your hidden location. (Or your back pocket, or shoe, or wherever.)
Here’s how to set the trick up. First find all the Aces. Then put the Ace of Diamonds in your pocket (or shoe or wherever) beforehand. Then place the other Aces on top of the deck. When you hold out the aces, make sure the Ace of Hearts is between the two other Aces. If you position both other cards on either side of the Ace of Hearts, it will look like the Ace of Diamonds to the audience.
How you word this is important. If you mention beforehand that you are going to make the Ace of Diamonds disappear, they will be looking much more closely. If you begin only by picking out three Aces and naming them (Clubs, Spades, And Diamonds) they’ll take your word for it.
A great way to do this is while you are mixing up the cards, tell some long convoluted story about the history of cards, and diamonds, and how they were always vanishing due to their metaphysical nature, or something else that you can make up on the spot. That way, when they start thinking about the Ace of Diamonds, it will already be hidden someplace in the deck, or so they think. Have fun with this trick.
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